Order Rodentia (Part 4)
Author
James H. Honacki
Author
Kenneth E. Kinman
Author
James W. Koeppl
text
1982
Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Editor
James H. Honacki
Editor
Kenneth E. Kinman
Editor
James W. Koeppl
Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition)
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book chapter
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Pitymys ochrogaster
(Wagner, 1842)
.
In
Schreber, Die Saugethiere ..., SuppL 3:592
.
REVIEWED BY: R. E. Barry, Jr. (REB).
TYPE
LOCALITY:
U.S.A.
, probably
Indiana
, New Harmony, "America."
DISTRIBUTION: W.
West Virginia
, northwest into
Alberta
, west to S.C.
Colorado
and N.
New Mexico
; isolated population in
Texas
and
Louisiana
.
COMMENT: Subgenus
Pedomys
;
see
Anderson, 1960
. See
Hooper and Hart, 1962
, Misc. Publ. Zool. Univ. Mich.
Mus
., No. 120, 68 pp., Martin, R. A., 1974,
in
Webb, ed., Pleistocene Mammals of
Florida
, p. 60, and
Chaline and
Mein
, 1979
, for basis of allocation to
Pitymys (Pedomys)
.
Van
Der Meulen, 1978
, Ann. Carnegie
Mus
., 47:101-145, regarded
Pedomys
as a subgenus of
Microtus
;
Hall, 1981:812
, placed this species in
Microtus
subgenus
Pitymys
.
WDS recommended that, if
Pitymys
is considered a distinct genus,
Pedomys
should also be given generic status. Includes
ludovicianus
;
see Raun and Laughlin, 1972, Southwest. Nat., 16:439. Includes
minor,
which
Severinghaus, 1977
, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 90:49-54, listed as a distinct species without comment; but see
Hall, 1981:8- 13
.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080031001 as
Microtus ochrogaster
.
5301410008080022001 as
Microtus ludovicianus
.